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Sowore draws backlash for backing Tyla’s Lagos concert as xenophobia row deepens
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HUMAN rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate for the 2027 poll, Omoyele Sowore, has come under criticism after defending South African Grammy-winning singer Tyla’s planned concert in Lagos State this December.
Several commenters insisted that the South African singer had never publicly condemned repeated xenophobic attacks targeting Nigerians and other African migrants in her country.
Another commenter, Humanist Adeyemi Oluwatosin, argued that Tyla’s silence amounted to complicity, saying, “She should have used her platform to speak out against xenophobic attacks.”
“There will be no Tyla concert in Nigeria.
He also referenced the legal battle involving former Miss South Africa contestant Chidimma Adetshina, saying, “Not when Chidimma Adetshina is battling deportation in a South African court.